Obituaries for Oct. 28, 2021
This week: Mary A. Willie, Alice L. Hildreth, Helen M. Curley, Caroline J. Sloan, Alberta M. Green, Pastor Elizabeth Bryant, Andrew F. Begaye, Norman G. Lee, and Gerald L. Schrock.
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People: Kinlichee join’s National Center’s team; Ethel Branch adds to list of honors
The National Center for American Indian Development welcomes Shelby Kinlichee to its team. And, Transformative and disability justice activist Mia Mingus and Ethel Branch, interim executive director of the Navajo and Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund, were honored by Phillips Brooks House Association on Oct. 15.
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Capital Briefs: Red Water Pond opposes NRC plan for uranium waste
On Oct. 16, the Red Water Pond Road Community Association, which was founded in 2006 by residents near the Northeast Church Rock Mines, the Tronox Quivira Mines, and the United Nuclear Corporation Mill Site, restated their opposition to the transfer of uranium mine waste from the mines to the Mill Site, located approximately one mile from the border of the Navajo Nation.
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Education Briefs: Frank crowned SJC’s Ms. Indigenous
San Juan College student Cassie Frank, Diné/Navajo, was recently crowned Ms. Indigenous San Juan College 2021-22.
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Guest Column: Arizona’s restrictive laws hurt Navajo voters. Will Congress step in to help us?
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic reached new heights across the country and in tribal communities, the Navajo people overcame major barriers and turned out in record numbers in the 2020 election.
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Wind: West at 11.5 gusting to27.6 MPH (10 gusting to 24 KT)
Pressure: 30.15
Dewpoint: 27.0 F (-2.8 C)
Humidity: 9%
Wind: West at 11.5 gusting to27.6 MPH (10 gusting to 24 KT)
Pressure: 30.15
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow